Senior Finance Grant Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Mai 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | £39,384 i £46,715 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National: £39,384 - £43,169 London: £43,007 - £46,715 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 04 Mehefin 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | B2 4BJ |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 354096/1 |
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The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export creating jobs and opportunities across the country by promoting the UK as a great place for business through our global network of connections.
Our work matters and has a direct impact on businesses, consumers and citizens across the UK. We are connected and accessible across the world and work tirelessly to partner with businesses to help them flourish in the UK and abroad. Our outward facing, global perspective is distinctive and unique and drives our confident, collaborative ways of working.
The Grants Delivery Team delivers a range of grant programmes on behalf of the Department. These include business support for large scale investments for example, in the automotive industry, to small grants to individual businesses to participate in trade fairs. The team are also responsible for managing the reconciliation and assurance of the Covid 19 Business Support grants, including debt recovery. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Department and become part of the DBT team as we deliver our schemes. Our role in awarding and monitoring grant awards across a wide range of policy areas requires us to comply with the Government Grant Standards and HMT’s Managing Public Money to ensure best value for money, minimise the risk of fraud and protect the taxpayer.
We are a friendly and supportive team working in a fast paced and dynamic environment as our team remit expands to reflect the new Department’s needs. We are currently recruiting for people who thrive on a challenge, who have pride in their work and want to take ownership and responsibility for it. We need people who give attention to detail and understand how that contributes to our strategic delivery. We want people that can work proactively and collaboratively across our team and the wider environment we function in, and who can provide leadership and support, so the team successfully delivers its objectives.
- Your work will form part of a wider oversight system for future scheme funding which provides confidence to Ministers and the Accounting Officer on eligibility and value for money in delivery that can withstand external audit and investigation. To deliver this, you will work with programme stakeholders across businesses and Local Authorities, the counter-fraud functions within Cabinet Office, the Government Internal Audit Agency and the National Audit Office.
- You will demonstrate visible inclusive leadership in line with the Civil Service leadership statement, working collaboratively across boundaries and teams, you will demonstrate a collaborative approach throughout your work.
- You will take responsibility for ensuring the relevant project management and financial system(s) information is kept up to date and accurate at all times with comprehensive, accurate SharePoint files maintained to evidence an appropriate audit trail.
- Supporting the delivery activities of the Grant Delivery Finance Management Team. Proficiency in working with large volumes of financial information and applying a keen attention to detail, flagging queries with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Review, reconciliation and payment of claims due, in an accurate and timely manner for Grants Delivery Directorate. Working within the Directorate and across the Department to ensuring clearances for payments are achieved within required timescales.
- Supporting the development of the end-to-end plan for grant schemes including production and presentation of claims guidance and templates to Local Authorities/Businesses for government grants.
- Assistance with the Directorate’s corporate tasks such as cash forecasting returns, monthly admin budget forecasts and financial performance reporting.
- Any other duty commensurate with the grade of the post.